Phivos Istavrioglou

The Bruces will have their first museum retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. It opens this June, with touring dates to be announced. Yay! [Brooklyn Museum]

Here comes a new timewaster! Chris Schier’s GIFmelter, a new tool to make your GIFs look weird and watery. [Today and Tomorrow]

Rhizome announces that Michael Connor will be their new Editor and Curator. Connor has been a cornerstone in the net art community for years, so we can’t wait to see what he does. He starts in April. [Rhizome]

Care to learn about what’s at the Vatican? Jonathan Jones lists off the wonders. [The Guardian]

Looks like writing your name on a Rothko can get you more than just jail time. There’s now a mini-documentary on featuring Yellowists Marcin Lodyga and Vladimir Umanets. [Animal New York]

Photographer Leslie Williamson is working on a new book called “Handcrafted Modern Europe: At Home with Midcentury Designers”. Apparently, a lot of the interiors she’s photographing disappear when their owners die or move, so she describes her work as “a race against time”. Donate to this Kickstarter, so we can preserve a little bit more of this history. [Kickstarter]

Fashion publicist Phivos Istavrioglou pled guilty in court on Tuesday to stealing a Salvador Dali painting from Upper East Side gallery Venus Over Manhattan. He’s the guy who fled with the painting to Milan, then felt bad about stealing it and mailed it back to New York. [Art Hostage]